3rd December 1968
CDC announces the 7600 supercomputer

Control Data Corporation announces its 7600 model, widely hailed as the first supercomputer.

Designed by Seymour Cray, the CDC 7600 ran at a speed of nearly 40 megaflops.

The first 7600 was delivered in January 1969 to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and cost in the region of $5 million.

Related information:

• The Centre for Computing History: Seymour Cray

Image:

• CDC 7600
  Credit: Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons